I have never seen an experienced programmer who routinely made detailed flow charts before beginning to write programs.

The Waterfall Model is wrong and harmful; we must outgrow it.

How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time.

Nine people can't make a baby in a month.

Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowcharts; they'll be obvious.

The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial (20-50 percent) chance of introducing another. So the whole process is two steps forward and one step back.

System debugging has always been a graveyard-shift occupation, like astronomy.

A scientist builds in order to learn; an engineer learns in order to build.

The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build.

Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later

System debugging, like astronomy, has always been done chiefly at night.

Miss Fairlie laughed with a ready good-humour, which broke out as brightly as if it had been part of the sunshine above us…

You must explore the timeless opportunities in life.

Great obstacles are no match for a great God.

Human emotion is not a linear experience. That which provokes emotion in one may provoke little, if anything, in another.

I could break bricks with my hands when I was 12.

I would have to commit a crime and have cops chase me. That would be the only way to get me to jog five miles.

If the Americans do move the embassy to Jerusalem, and eventually the rest of the world follows suit, it will mark the end of Palestinian hopes for a two-state solution.

And here goes Aguero, looking to relieve himself.

I think one lesson we have to learn is that there's a lot more risk than we're giving credit to, a lot more what economist calls systematic risk.

It is hard for me to be vulnerable, because I never learned how to do that. I was never vulnerable in a safe way.